Chapter 17 - Results

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Lucia was staring intently at the meditating Cecil, her gaze threatening to burn a hole on his face.

"Lucia! Leave Cecil be."

"But Mo~om, he's been doing this for a week now!"

"Well, that just goes to show how serious he is okay?"

"Ceehh, no fun~"

Cecil had already been repeating this routine of eating and meditating all day long for a week now.

Although he had set his goal to be able to perceive mana in 2-3 days, it was much harder than he had expected.

Of course, it wasn't without results. To his surprise, Cecil was actually able to find the 'energy' his father had mentioned. It was intangible, but he could surely feel that it did, in fact, exist inside of him.

Cecil believes this to be mana, but no matter how much he tried to familiarize himself with this energy, he still couldn't find that same feeling in the surrounding air.

It was as if mana only existed inside his body and not anywhere else. This was a sign that he still hasn't achieved his goal, so he kept on persisting.

Silver, on the other hand, had grown more and more proficient in his use of mana, he could now cast wind and lightning elemental magic with ease.

Of course when Silver started using lightning element magic, the family was really surprised. Not only that, but with Silver's increasing proficiency in mana, it seemed to have some sort of impact on his body.

In just this week, Silver had physically grown to twice his original size. Before he was only around 1.5 meters tall and around 2 meters long, but now he was 3 meters in height and 4 meters long.

He had practically grown to a size that could compare to the monster animals of this world. In fact, he was practically one of them now!

It was a good thing that nothing besides his mana proficiency and size changed, if he turned into a bloodthirsty monster that would seriously ruin Cecil's heart.

Cecil was of course proud of Silver's achievement, but at the same time he used it as his motivation.

If Silver could do it, then there's no reason as to why he can't. So Cecil only started to train even harder.

Another week later,

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Cecil was sitting on the ground, his entire consciousness focused on the faint 'energy' that he felt in his body.

After an intensive training session yesterday, Cecil was now able to perceive that not only was the 'energy' located at the area near his abdomen, but it was actually equally distributed all around his body, permeating every cell of his being.

This came to a surprise for Cecil since he only knew that mana could only be stored and found in the mana point of a person.

Never was there any information about mana being stored all over a person's body like in his case.

Then again this 'energy' might not necessarily be mana. It could be something else entirely.

As Cecil kept his focus on this energy, without him noticing, the surrounding mana in the atmosphere started to act strangely.

The mana started to revolve around Cecil's body in a clockwise vortex. The more focused Cecil was, the stronger the vortex. Eventually it turned into a mini cyclone around his body that affected the surrounding air.

If someone was to stand near Cecil, they would actually be able to 'feel' the mana vortex that was revolving around him.

With Cecil at the center, this phenomenon persisted for around 5 minutes, and then the vortex of mana started to converge on Cecil.

Cecil wasn't aware of the strange occurrence that was happening. It was only until when the surrounding mana started to enter his body, permeating throughout his entire body and settling down inside did he notice.

Cecil was surprised and he immediately opened his eyes.

"This… could this be mana?"

A large portion of the mana that settled down in his body was focused around his mana point, his heart, his eyes, and his brain.

Although his eyes hadn't condensed a mana crystal that could grant him mana sight, but with the abundant amount of mana that was already located in his body, adding onto the mana that settled down in his eyes, this was enough to give him the partial ability to see mana.

Another reason why he could see the mana with his partial mana sight was because the density of mana in the air from the result of his training was enough for even a normal person to vaguely see the golden colored mana if they focused with their eyes.

This was only the preliminary stage of mana sight that every person who was born with mana sight would develop while still being inside their mother's w.o.m.b.

This preliminary stage would soon develop into complete mana sight after the person was born. That would mean that Cecil would be able to gain mana sight after another 1-2 months of mana acc.u.mulation in his eyes.

After acc.u.mulating enough mana into his eyes, it would then start to crystallize and he would then gain complete mana sight.

Cecil didn't know this, but he was still ecstatic to find out that he was finally able to sense mana and partially see mana now.

"Finally! All that hard work wasn't in vain!"

If someone found out that a 13 year old boy had actually been able to sense mana only after a little over 2 weeks of training, then their minds would be blown away.

The average person even in Alterna would take at least half a year to a whole year or even more. The talent that Cecil displayed could be called freakish, almost on par with the elementals that were born from the elements themselves and the monsters that could manipulate mana from birth like dragons and such.

Of course, Cecil didn't know this; he was now jumping up and down celebrating his accomplishment.

"Yes! Now, let's try and use magic!"

"Cel~! It's lunch time! Come eat already!"

"Eh? Okay Lucia…"

With the vast intake of mana that permanently resided throughout his entire body, Cecil was in dire need of food right now. His elation caused him to not sense how hungry he currently was.

Only until Lucia snapped him out of his elation that he suddenly felt the hunger pangs his body was experiencing.

"Strange? I feel so hungry all of a sudden… like I haven't eaten anything for a day or two."

'What the heck? Did something wrong happen?'

Cecil was worried, but when he smelt the alluring aroma of the food from the kitchen, he immediately threw all his worries into the wind and rushed inside the house.

While feeling the oddness in his body, Cecil ran to the kitchen to eat his lunch with the rest of Lucia's family.